Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Texts Have Consequences
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture – New Testament II: Mark edited by thomas c. oden and christopher…
The Mozart Effect
It can cure backache. And asthma. And obesity, writer’s block, alcoholism, schizophrenia, prejudice, heart disease, drug addiction,…
A Third Way?
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by edward…
How the Court Became Supreme
The past half-century has witnessed the rise to prominence of a constitutional theory that gives the U.S.…
The Good Casuist
The Way of the Lord Jesus, Vol. 3: Difficult Moral Questions by germain grisez franciscan, 927 pages,…
What Aquinas Never Said About Women
If the first casualty of war is the unwelcome truth, the first tool of the discontented is…
Sin, Theodicy & Politics
It is a pleasure to recommend to readers Father Edward Oakes’ masterful essay on original sin elsewhere…
Questioning Everything?
Ever since Galileo, the received wisdom has held that an “expert” is somebody who “thinks scientifically,” as…
Original Sin: A Disputation
No doctrine inside the precincts of the Christian Church is received with greater reserve and hesitation, even…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
In Defense of Disbelief
A healthy dose of Christian disbelief or “holy skepticism” would serve as a much-needed antidote to the…
The New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age…
Making the Wager
God: The Evidence. The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World By Patrick Glynn Prima.…
Babel Undone
A few decades ago I published a short piece in Christianity Today about something I had observed on a…
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
On March 16, 1998, the Holy See released a long-awaited statement on the Church and the Holocaust,…
